Word: thoreau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he poured out in anger or tribute trace his lyrical journey through its mysteries. After his death, poets and critics were quick to speak of him as "the greatest innovator in modern poetry," as a man who perfected "the idiom of American common speech." Some placed him beside Thoreau and Whitman in "the pantheon of American letters." Cummings would have disliked the portentous phrase. He was not the sort of artist who can easily be put in any resounding literary hierarchy...
...people in ability and sense, who will serve to guide, inspire and set the standards for those amiable but less capable members of society. It matters not whether a man is of good lineage or is self-made, whether he be as rich as Rockefeller or as Henry David Thoreau. But he must have some quality that distinguishes him from the mass, wisdom and standards that equip him for leadership. The people in your article do not meet these requirements. Mr. Guest inherited some money and plays a pretty fair game of polo. Mrs. Guest posed in the nude...
...Relevance of the American Past," Kazin is on his own, his native grounds--and, although he has had the hutzpa to reprint the preface from the Riverside paper-back edition of Moby Dick (the edition with all those foolish notes), he has good, sometimes brillant things to say about Thoreau, Stephen Crane and John Jay Chapman, among others. In a later section of the book, he gets into his real meat, the turn-of-the-century naturalists and the generation of the '20's and '30's. Here he is at his best, soundly rebutting silly Lionel Trilling
...four decades, Ten Thousand Men of Harvard-or a goodly number of them-have actually sat down and read the annual appeal for contributions to the Harvard Fund. It might contain a richly allusive essay on how Thoreau would have viewed the college hierarchy, or some gentle musings on the anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional...
...Unitarians were Congregationalist and Episcopalian rebels; they rejected the divinity of Christ because the Trinity seemed incompatible with the idea of one God. In the 19th century, Unitarianism nurtured the flowering of New England. The Harvard Divinity School was virtually a seminary for the church until 1870. Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau and Hawthorne called themselves Unitarians. Since about 1930, Unitarianism has tended to divide into two uneasily yoked branches: one seeks to preserve the church's past links with Protestantism, and asserts the fatherhood of God, the leadership of Jesus, and the hopeful march of mankind toward salvation; the other...